Adidas Websites Hit by 'Sophisticated' Cyberattack

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The German shoe-manufacturing giant Adidas took down several
websites over the weekend as a result of what the company calls
"a sophisticated, criminal cyberattack."

"Our preliminary investigation has found no evidence that any
consumer data is impacted," reads the press statement posted yesterday (Nov. 6)
on Adidas' news site. "But, while we continue our thorough
forensic review, we have taken down affected sites, including
adidas.com, reebok.com, miCoach.com, adidas-group.com and
various local eCommerce shops, in order to protect visitors to
our sites."

As of midday Monday, the main Adidas site and MiCoach.com were
still down, but the Reebok and Adidas Group sites were back up.
The site for the Rockport line of shoes, which became part of
Adidas when the latter company acquired Reebok, did not seem to
be affected.

Adidas did not provide further details other than to state that
"we have put in place a number of additional data security
measures."

As security researcher Carole Theriault posted on Sophos' Naked Security blog, "We
would recommend that anyone who has shopped online at any of
the affected sites change their passwords as soon as
possible."